---
type: "Bill"
title: "County boards of supervisors; salaries."
description: "County boards of supervisors; salaries. Requires county boards of supervisors, prior to July 1 of each year, to set a maximum annual compensation, which will become effective as of January 1 of the year following the next regularly scheduled elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 172"
citation: "Virginia SB 172 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark J. Peake"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57126a4a-3413-4d0c-b900-793971fac891"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB172"
source_hash: "6599af6dac34ecf10debcaf7b33dd38b1caeb7824a0c9a1e5c44d7dbe16259cc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia SB 172 (2022) — County boards of supervisors; salaries.

County boards of supervisors; salaries. Requires county boards of supervisors, prior to July 1 of each year, to set a maximum annual compensation, which will become effective as of January 1 of the year following the next regularly scheduled elections.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0616** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0616)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102602D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB172)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22102602D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB172E)
4. **SB172ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB172ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark J. Peake — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102602D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-17** Reported from Local Government with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-19** Reading of amendments waived
- **2022-01-19** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-01-19** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB172E
- **2022-01-19** Printed as engrossed 22102602D-E
- **2022-01-20** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-04** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 616 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57126a4a-3413-4d0c-b900-793971fac891`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).